Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:00 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
We have nine senior psychologists and almost 14 staff grade psychologists, and we have introduced a new grade of assistant psychologist so that we ensure that we can target specific categories of prisoners, including young offenders. There would be an assessment at committal stage. A determination would be made as to whether somebody needed to be seen by the psychology service and there would be a referral-----
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